SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 07 / 29

Boy accidentally kills himself over cellphone

Engadget reports on a terrible trajedy which occured in England, involving a cell phone.

"A boy of 12 accidentally hanged himself with his school tie after his parents refused to buy him a new mobile phone, an inquest heard yesterday.

The boy had argued with his parents that he wanted a mobile phone “just like his dad’s” and was told to save up for one. Sent to his room to calm down, in a fit of temper, the boy put one end of the tie loosely round his neck and the other around the top rail on his bunk bed"

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